Steinunn Önnudóttir lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland.
She completed a BA in Graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009 and a BA in Audiovisual in 2011, also at GRA.
Latest shows include Green Growth at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, feigðarós — dreamfields, a collaborative show at Kling&Bang, Reykjavík, and Non Plus Ultra, a solo show at the Reykjavík Art Museum.
Steinunn received the Svavar Guðnason and Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists in 2019 and was nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize as Artist of the Year in 2022 together with Anna Hrund Másdóttir and Ragnheiður Káradóttir for their collaborative exhibition feigðarós — dreamfields.
Steinunn ran the Harbinger Project Space from 2014 until 2023, in collaboration with multiple artists, and has published artist books via the publishing platform in volumes in collaboration with Halla Kristín Hannesdóttir since 2017. From 2018 – 2022 Steinunn was a board member of the Sequences Art Festival.
Latest shows include Green Growth at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, feigðarós — dreamfields, a collaborative show at Kling&Bang, Reykjavík, and Non Plus Ultra, a solo show at the Reykjavík Art Museum.
Steinunn received the Svavar Guðnason and Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists in 2019 and was nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize as Artist of the Year in 2022 together with Anna Hrund Másdóttir and Ragnheiður Káradóttir for their collaborative exhibition feigðarós — dreamfields.
Steinunn ran the Harbinger Project Space from 2014 until 2023, in collaboration with multiple artists, and has published artist books via the publishing platform in volumes in collaboration with Halla Kristín Hannesdóttir since 2017. From 2018 – 2022 Steinunn was a board member of the Sequences Art Festival.
solo / duo exhibitions
2025 Green Growth — Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien — Berlin
2019 Non plus ultra — D-36 — Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík
2019 Someplace, somewhere — Cosmos Carl – platform parasite
2018 Terraria — with Clara Bro Uerkvitz — Ekkisens — Reykjavík
2017 Pink blush, blue veins — Gallery Port — Reykjavík
2017 Mirage — with Juliette Freney — IAA — Reykjavík
2015 Safe Place — SÍM-gallery — Reykjavík
selected group exhibitions
2024 Coincidentially, we see abstractly — National Gallery of Iceland — Reykjavík,
2024 Christmas show — Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík
2023 Lounge Corp Grand Prix 2023 — Lounge Corp & Open at Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík,
2022 In another house — with Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir & Hanna Dís Whitehead — Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík
2021 feigðarós – dreamfields — with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir — Kling&Bang — Reykjavík
2020 Regenerate #2 — curation: Claire Paugam & Maria Carmela Raso — Gallery Port — Reykjavík
2019 100 — Galleri CC — Malmö,
2018 Skúlptúr Skúlptúr — Kópavogur Art Museum — Kópavogur
2018 Mark my words — with Mam — Not Quite — Fengersfors
2018 Artist-run — Ekkisens — Reykjavík
2018 The Wheel — Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association — Reykjavík Art Festival — Reykjavík
2018 Pamphlets — Open — Reykjavík
2017 List Officinalis — Nesstofa — Seltjarnarnes
2016 UpsideDome —Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum — with IAA — Reykjavík
2016 Plan-B Art Festival — Mjólkursamlagið — Borgarnes
2015 Kunstschlagerstofa Video Program — Reykjavík Art Museum
2012 Artefacts — with Polly’s Picture Show — Amsterdam
2010 Art show! — the India residency — Shenoy Nagar Beach — Chennai
2007 Cinema de Bricolage — Arti e Amicitae — with GRA — Amsterdam
grants / nominations / residencies
2024-25 Artist in residence – Künstlerhaus Bethanien – Berlin, Germany
2022 Icelandic Art Prize — Nomination — with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir for feigðarós
2019 the Svavar Guðnason & Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists
artist salaries
2024 Artist Salary – 12 months – Artists’ Salary Fund
2021 Artist Salary – 6 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020 Artist Salary – 3 months — Covid support — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020 Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2019 Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
publications
2024 The Christmas show — Ásmundarsalur
2022 The Wheel 2018 – 2022 — the Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association
2022 Art in Iceland – no.02 — the Icelandic Art Center
2021 feigðarós — artist book — self-published
2019 Blæti tímarit – nr.3 — Studio Blæti
2019 Expressjónismi — artist book — self-published
2025 Green Growth — Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien — Berlin
2019 Non plus ultra — D-36 — Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík
2019 Someplace, somewhere — Cosmos Carl – platform parasite
2018 Terraria — with Clara Bro Uerkvitz — Ekkisens — Reykjavík
2017 Pink blush, blue veins — Gallery Port — Reykjavík
2017 Mirage — with Juliette Freney — IAA — Reykjavík
2015 Safe Place — SÍM-gallery — Reykjavík
selected group exhibitions
2024 Coincidentially, we see abstractly — National Gallery of Iceland — Reykjavík,
2024 Christmas show — Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík
2023 Lounge Corp Grand Prix 2023 — Lounge Corp & Open at Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík,
2022 In another house — with Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir & Hanna Dís Whitehead — Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík
2021 feigðarós – dreamfields — with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir — Kling&Bang — Reykjavík
2020 Regenerate #2 — curation: Claire Paugam & Maria Carmela Raso — Gallery Port — Reykjavík
2019 100 — Galleri CC — Malmö,
2018 Skúlptúr Skúlptúr — Kópavogur Art Museum — Kópavogur
2018 Mark my words — with Mam — Not Quite — Fengersfors
2018 Artist-run — Ekkisens — Reykjavík
2018 The Wheel — Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association — Reykjavík Art Festival — Reykjavík
2018 Pamphlets — Open — Reykjavík
2017 List Officinalis — Nesstofa — Seltjarnarnes
2016 UpsideDome —Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum — with IAA — Reykjavík
2016 Plan-B Art Festival — Mjólkursamlagið — Borgarnes
2015 Kunstschlagerstofa Video Program — Reykjavík Art Museum
2012 Artefacts — with Polly’s Picture Show — Amsterdam
2010 Art show! — the India residency — Shenoy Nagar Beach — Chennai
2007 Cinema de Bricolage — Arti e Amicitae — with GRA — Amsterdam
grants / nominations / residencies
2024-25 Artist in residence – Künstlerhaus Bethanien – Berlin, Germany
2022 Icelandic Art Prize — Nomination — with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir for feigðarós
2019 the Svavar Guðnason & Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists
artist salaries
2024 Artist Salary – 12 months – Artists’ Salary Fund
2021 Artist Salary – 6 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020 Artist Salary – 3 months — Covid support — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020 Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2019 Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
publications
2024 The Christmas show — Ásmundarsalur
2022 The Wheel 2018 – 2022 — the Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association
2022 Art in Iceland – no.02 — the Icelandic Art Center
2021 feigðarós — artist book — self-published
2019 Blæti tímarit – nr.3 — Studio Blæti
2019 Expressjónismi — artist book — self-published